in association with THE PIERRE BERGÉ LIBRARY Pages from a singular life “Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it ; I neither complain of the past, nor fear the future.” Montaigne IMAGES ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST SALE Friday 11 December 2015 AUCTION AND EXHIBITION Drouot Richelieu, 9 rue Drouot 75009 Paris PRESS CONTACTS Sophie Dufresne
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[email protected] T. +33 (0)1 53 05 52 32 PIERRE BERGÉ & ASSOCIÉS PARIS 92 avenue d’Iéna 75116 Paris T. +33 (0)1 49 49 90 00 F. +33 (0)1 49 49 90 01 Beginning in DECember 2015, Pierre BergÉ & ASSOCIÉS, in CollAborAtion With SothebY’S, Will be AUCtioning the PERSonAL librARY of Pierre BergÉ. This collection includes 1,600 precious books, manuscripts and musical scores, dating from the 15th to the 20th century. A selection of a hundred of these works will be part of a travelling preview exhibition in Monaco, New York, Hong Kong and London during the summer and autumn of 2015. The first part of the library will be auctioned in Paris on 11 December at the Hôtel Drouot, by Antoine Godeau. This first sale will offer a stunning selection of one hundred and fifty works of literary interest spanning six centuries, from the first edition of St Augustine’s Confessions, printed in Strasbourg circa 1470, to William Burroughs’ Scrap Book 3, published in 1979. The thematic sales which are to follow in 2016 and 2017 will feature not only literary works, the core of the collection, but also books on botany, gardening, music and the exploration of major philosophical and political ideas.